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96 COMPLETE PEERAGE albion for Canada, 1854-56. P.C, 1859. Treasurer of the Queen's House- hold, 1859-66. Lieut. Col. of the Civil Service Rifle Volunteers, i860. K.C.M.G., 24 Aug. 1870. On 6 Sep. 1876 he was sum., v.p., to the House of Lords in his father's Barony of Ashford. Under Sec. for War, 1878- 80, and 1885-86. Was received into the Church of Rome, Easter Sunday, 13 Apr. 1879. Volunteer Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, 1881. Hem., 15 Nov. 1855, at Dundrum, Canada West, Sophia Mary, da. and coh. of Sir Allen Napier McNab, of Dundrum, Bart, (sometime Prime Minister of Canada), by his 2nd wife, Mary, da. of John Stuart, SheriflF of Johnstown district, Upper Canada. He d. of paralysis, 28 Aug. 1894, aged 62, and was l>ur. at Quidenham. His widow living 1909. VIII. 1894. 8. Arnold Allan Cecil (Keppel), Earl of Albe- marle, Viscount Bury and Baron Ashford [1697], ist s. and h., l>. i June 1858, in Sloane Str., Chelsea ; ed. at Eton ; sometime Lieut. Scots Guards ; Lieut. Col. Com. Civil Service Rifles (Vol.) ; styled Viscount Bury, 1891-94; M.P. for Birkenhead, 1892-94. He m., 4 Jan. 1 88 1, Gertrude Lucia, only child of Wilbraham (Egerton), ist Earl Egerton, by Mary Sarah, ist da. of William Pitt (Amherst), 2nd Earl Amherst of Arracan. She was l>. 9 Jan. 1861. [Walter Egerton George Lucian Keppel, stykd since 1894, Vis- count Bury, ist s. and h. ap., i. 28 Feb. 1882. Lieut. Scots Guards; A.D.C. to Gov. Gen. of Canada, 1904. He m., 9 June 1909, at St. Margaret's, Westm., Judith Sydney Myee, 4th da. of Charles Robert (Wynn-Carrington), ist Earl Carrington, by Cecilia Margaret, ist da. of Charles (Harbord), 5th Baron Suffield. She was i>. 27 Sep. 1889.] Family Estates. — These, in 1883, consisted of about 7,500 acres in Norfolk, and about 2,500 in co. Leitrim ; the former being worth about

^7,300 and the latter about ;^ 1,000, making a total of about ;^8,300

a year. Principal Residence. — Quidenham Hall, near Attleborough, Norfolk. ALBINI or D'ALBINI, see DAUBENY ALBION TITULAR I. "Sir Edmund Plowden, EARL OF AL- EARLDOM [I.] BION, " so styled in the margin of his will, dat. 29 J ^ p July 1655, pr. 27 July 1659. In the body of the said will he describes himself as "Sir Edmund -- Plowden of Wansted, co. Southampton, Knt., Lord, '^^9- EARL PALATINE, Governor and Capt.-Gen. OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW ALBION in America, and a PEER OF